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La France rejette sur le FPR la responsabilité de la situation et rappelle que la zone de sécurité lui est interdite
Card Number 35925
Number
35925
Author
Roger-Petit, Bruno
Author
Mousset, Benoît
Date
18 juillet 1994
Ymd
19940718
Time
07:00:00
Time zone
CEST
Uptitle
Journal de 7 heures [1:07]
Title
La France rejette sur le FPR la responsabilité de la situation et rappelle que la zone de sécurité lui est interdite
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Source
Public records
Type
Journal télévisé
Language
en
Abstract
- Rwanda. France is now issuing warnings to the RPF: no armed infiltration into the humanitarian zone defined by the French.
- The time for provocations and threats is undoubtedly over. Ignoring the UN's call for a ceasefire, the RPF wants to consolidate its victory.
- Yesterday afternoon [July 17], mortar shells fell on Goma, on the Zairian-Rwandan border, the base of Operation Turquoise. The airport was also hit. There were reportedly 60 deaths, many of them children. Humanitarian flights have been suspended.
- Fighting has therefore reached the vicinity of Zaire. Gisenyi, a few kilometers away, the last stronghold of government forces, fell yesterday [July 17].
- The RPF is even announcing its intention to invade the French protection zone if the perpetrators of the massacres are not handed over to them. A clash occurred again yesterday [July 17] with French soldiers. Given the seriousness of the situation, France is placing the blame on the RPF and reiterating that the safe zone is off-limits to him.
- Meanwhile, refugees continue to pour in across the country, forming ever-growing columns stretching for dozens of kilometers.
- The time for provocations and threats is undoubtedly over. Ignoring the UN's call for a ceasefire, the RPF wants to consolidate its victory.
- Yesterday afternoon [July 17], mortar shells fell on Goma, on the Zairian-Rwandan border, the base of Operation Turquoise. The airport was also hit. There were reportedly 60 deaths, many of them children. Humanitarian flights have been suspended.
- Fighting has therefore reached the vicinity of Zaire. Gisenyi, a few kilometers away, the last stronghold of government forces, fell yesterday [July 17].
- The RPF is even announcing its intention to invade the French protection zone if the perpetrators of the massacres are not handed over to them. A clash occurred again yesterday [July 17] with French soldiers. Given the seriousness of the situation, France is placing the blame on the RPF and reiterating that the safe zone is off-limits to him.
- Meanwhile, refugees continue to pour in across the country, forming ever-growing columns stretching for dozens of kilometers.